We’re all seeing double at Roman Road this month as the traditional Summer Festival, organised by the Roman Road Resident & Business Association and Tower Hamlets Council, will extend over two Sundays. Everyone’s welcome to go along: free events begin ...
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Human Appeal opens new shop on Whitechapel Road
International humanitarian aid and development charity Human Appeal is one of the UK’s fastest growing charities. It has a presence in 25 countries, spanning Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, where it helps in times of crisis and delivers ...
Read More »Mayor Lutfur Rahman built highest number of affordable homes in country – official!
Figures released by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) show Tower Hamlets delivered the highest number of affordable homes in the country. Between 2010/11 and 2014/15 – essentially the period of Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration – Tower Hamlets ...
Read More »Shopkeepers: think before you put “legal highs” on sale
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) – the formal name for substances more usually referred to as “legal highs” – are chemicals which have been designed to mimic the effects of illegal drugs. Although, like illegal drugs, they can give people who ...
Read More »And then there were TEN
John Biggs is to reveal his Cabinet at tonight’s reconvened AGM of Tower Hamlets Council – but BD News 24 is reporting who the Cabinet will be. Expected Cabinet John Biggs has already announced that instead of having just one ...
Read More »Foundation says Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s care for vulnerable residents was “a model”
Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s work on protecting residents from Tory welfare cuts has been praised as a model for other councils to follow. As Tower Hamlets voters went to the polls in the mayoral election, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report (11th ...
Read More »Live from the Count
ELN is back in the Excel aircraft-hangar. There’s two counts today: the Stepney Green Ward by-election and the Mayor of Tower Hamlets by-election. We’ll update this story with news as it occurs: keep checking back. We are hoping to have ...
Read More »Abu Talha: The Next Generation is here!
Abu Talha Chowdhury could be the youngest member of Tower Hamlets Council if he is elected on 11th June – and what a breath of fresh air he would be on a body that so often seems to be far ...
Read More »Labour muddles up its Khan’s and Khan’ts
What’s in a name? Perhaps it was inevitable that Cllr Rabina Khan would use the slogan “Yes We Khan!” – nothing wrong with a quick pun during an election campaign. Unfortunately, Tower Hamlets’ Rabina is not the only Khan in ...
Read More »Labour: this was no walk in the park
The last weekend of the mayoral election campaign in Tower Hamlets saw questions being raised about how the Labour Party came to use a public park for a “campaign event”. Either the Party had hired Altab Ali Park (which would ...
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